How microbial bioremediation offers promising solutions to reducing environmental pollutants?

Abstract Advancing research on reducing environmental pollution must be met with scientific solutions and urgent policy decisions. Climate change along with increasing anthropogenic pressures is resulting in natural resource depletion causing biodiversity loss, rise in opportunistic pathogens, greenhouse gas emissions, ocean acidification and food security threats that may all have disastrous consequences for the health of all life on Earth, if not adequately managed and addressed. Microbial bioremediation alone and along with other approaches offers sustainable solutions. An increasing understanding of the roles and potential of microorganisms as environmental engineers must be employed to improve not only the quality of soil, water, and air but also to reduce and transform hazardous environmental pollutants. Microorganisms that efficiently break down different types of pollutants are interesting and noteworthy. Understanding, evaluating, and developing strategies for utilizing microbial capabilities along with other methods in environmental pollution clean-up appears to be a crucial technology. In this review, we highlight the potential microbial solutions for reducing and transforming environmental pollutants. This review aims to garner scientific attention to practically employ microorganisms to reduce environmental pollution and furthering their research for planetary well-being.